would normally be prime minister but he's barred from running because of a vote rigging conviction to turkey now where hundreds of thousands of people have attended a rally for the main opposition party in is mere ahead of sunday's election the head of the republican people's party promised his supporters that he would transform the country is the main challenger to president. on sunday's vote is the first election since changes to the constitution to the power of the presidency. and if europe is a prime minister says that east african countries will take action to end south sudan's civil war if warring parties can't reach an agreement regional leaders are meeting in at is about to discuss the peace process and once a president salva kiir met a rebel leader for the first time in two years tens of thousands of people have been displaced in five years of conflict.

and. there are. now police in malaysia are reopening a murder investigation that could have links to former prime minister najib razak the man mongolian model was killed in two thousand and six by two former police officers who worked as bodyguards for najib is believed the model was a lover of a political analyst who advised the president the prime minister but the former leader denies knowing the woman. rajiv is being investigated of the claims he stole billions of dollars during his nine is in office he denies taking money from the safe. i was not didn't have any knowledge whatsoever

of monies coming in i would not have couldn't do it and allowed it if i knew subsequently i believe that cohen had monies from several sources. and this is debatable but as far as i'm concerned i'm not privy to bang bang records you know unless you have special clearance from the bank then you would know what a source of funding or they knew i accept it at face value what it is says coming from from the saudi king abdullah and his being you know at his instruction a place in thailand carrying out raids on factories to stamp out the legal import of electronic waste since china banned imports last companies in thailand have been taking in more waste than they're allowed to report from bangkok. police officers gather at a factory gate just outside bangkok they send up

a drone to take a peek inside before scaling the wall and going in this is the latest in a series of raids on electronic waste factories for the past month the authorities have been cracking down on illegal operations and investigating imported waste some companies are bringing in more than they're authorized to import and using illegal factories like this one. it's the largest raid of its kind yet police estimate that there are six thousand tons of illegal waste in the sprawling compound. kompany canyon but now we found out at. not the. factory but to another in the gun factory importers have now had their license is suspended for a year intelligence gained on previous raids led police here to this plastic facility it's not even registered to do this kind of work now this is a stack of old router fronts now there are thousands of stacks like this on this

facility and it's clear that this particular one came from overseas on the back of them there's a sticker with an american customer service number on it customs officials say that the import of plastic material for recycling including waste totals two hundred thousand tons for just the first five months of this year that's double the amount for all of last year i believe it for the band from china in the country so. tend to fly other countries into and thailand. those countries. environmental group also thinks that. they're concerned with the contamination electronic waste causes water and soil and airborne toxins but the more immediate concern there's no specific law that deals directly with management.

he says there's domestic to keep the current businesses open so there's no reason to take in other countries.

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one of the biggest problems facing our oceans is the loss of seagrass that i was one check rule for roughly fifteen percent of the oceans total carbon storage perhaps are they all twice as much carbon dioxide as rain forest and they're also question marine habitats for many endangered oceans species. but here on elkhorn slew in central california the tide could be turning for sea grass thanks to some unexpected allies. trying a free air. this nine hundred hectare as she wary is where rivers through. this region the pacific ocean this is the agricultural powerhouse of the united states and fertilizer and pesticide runoff threaten the balance of this delicate ecosystem so having farmers so close to the ocean on what what impact does that have on the water quality well

i mean we're coastal environments close to urban centers cause forward winds close cultural centers. like us. grows with the rocks there mentioning start composing over half of the world's sea grass meadows are in decline but here in al corn slue they're making a surprising comeback. oh wow. at one time there were thousands of sea otters in california but in the eighteen hundreds they were hunted to near extinction for their soft fur pelts. there are now more than one hundred in this as consuming a staggering one hundred thousand crabs per year. this federation's appetite has helped restore the balance of this ecosystem by triggering

a chain reaction known as a trophic cascade. sea otters the crabs lower crop numbers allows smaller invertebrates like sea slugs to thrive and these creatures are crucial for the health of seagrass by eating builds up on the leaves they allow sunlight to reach the plants. because the otters are so crucial to the ecosystem scientists are carefully monitoring their slow and steady come back. they capture them and tag them with radio devices. them firing their work really well. chicago's should probably fairly close. what some promise i'm talking we go out seven days a week is to go out and find individuals see where they are what they're doing. and the other part of it is just so we can understand the distribution of authors in

this area what are they eating and how are they doing health wise there's one right there that's three four nine six so that beeping is an otter and that beeping is from the radio transmitter that's we surgically implanted with her so that helps us move kater why don't you take a look right in there. along the west coast of north america researchers have noticed that the return of top level predators is having an impact on restoring all kinds of underwater life and the entire ocean system. what the sea otters do it's kind of it turns the tables against. groupings of packs of sea auditors meaning crowd especially the same grouse an advantage again so if we introduce top predators like sea otters to ecosystems around the world will it have

a knock on effect potentially in the prediction is yes so if you re store food webs which means a lot of times bringing back a top predator to a system that we wiped out we have the great potential for restoring the health of that system. on land direct from the tim de generes people. plundered for its resources. to now long held resentment it's

a turn in violent with deadly consequences and you cannot use that as an excuse to go over shame and practice people in power travels to south america to discover the minds of the mcclatchy and algis of the. on june twenty fourth turkish citizens will vote in one of their most significant elections in recent years the winner will take on news sweeping presidential powers approved in a referendum last year we'll have full coverage of the vote and its impact follow the turkey elections on al-jazeera. stamkos the else geology of both mentally resources under a burden why are they so poor to measure where you guys live when finally each form of government. the tocsin with essentially no is the more we would close down the more they push back we knew it was coming to question was did we sit and wait or do

we surprised them with a preemptive strike on the body. analogy zero. zero is a very important force of information for many people around the world when all the cameras are gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. of. the world. donald trump says he's told the federal agencies to begin you nineteen thousand names torn apart at the u.s. border as the first lady makes a surprise visit to a shelter for migrant children. i

know that i met him ahmed this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a major milestone for greece which has been receiving massive financial aid for almost a decade to keep its economy afloat. and charged with fraud the wife of israel's prime minister is accused of misusing public funds on food. and a two time world cup champions argentina on are on the brink of elimination. now there is. uncertainty and confusion over the fate of more than two thousand migrant children split from their families a day off to the u.s. president ended the practice little trump's executive order cold for children to be held with their parents while they cases of illegally crossing the border. now under u.s.

law they can only be detained for up to twenty days and it's unclear what will happen after that the pentagon has been asked to prepare housing for up to twenty thousand unaccompanied migrant children on u.s. military bases the white house has gone into damage control over the separation and the first lady malani a truck made a surprise visit to a shelter for child migrants at the u.s. border with mexico but what was supposed to be a trip of compassion turned into a p.r. disaster after she wore a jacket with a message i really don't care do you and delegation of u.s. mayors have also traveled to texas demanding washington finds a solution children are not poker chips people and we demand that washington fix the mess that it has created the president retreated today is not solve the problem we're all saying that zero tolerance still exists that's raking in american tradition of respecting people fleeing oppression the

families are not reunify we don't know when they'll be we're going to fight for that like a bad as under is live for us in macallan texas where many immigrant children are currently being held ok president trump has ordered that the children be reunited with their parents do we know any more details on how that process is going to work . not only do we not know any more details the people that are supposed to be implementing this reunification don't know a lot of the details and that's just a fact from all we're seeing here on the ground in mccallan texas here and that's the big problem we had president trump sign this executive order and he said i think if we for he signed it a lot of people are going to be very happy with this i can tell you nobody is really happy with this because we have seen no at least here because we have seen no reunifications we've seen no happy children being reunited with their parents at all the big problem is there just so many different government agencies that have some sort of hand in this the border patrol homeland security health and human

services which is the main agency holding these children these are multiple agencies they're all looking at each other saying how the heck are we going to reunite children that are detained thousands of them with parents that are in the criminal justice system some parents who are spread out in facilities all over texas and other places and some of these parents have already been deported back to central america or most of them are from so this also involves potentially the state department getting involved it is in one word or two or it's a mess and even people here they're trying to implement this they might not come out and say that but it's pretty darn clear that there is just no plan in place or if there is it just hasn't been executed yet and they're still trying to to just make this up quite frankly as they go along to clear the clear thing from here is that this was a crisis yesterday it's a crisis today and it's very clear it's going to be a crisis tomorrow and in the days weeks and maybe even months ahead and get i know

you've been talking to some of the families that what have they been saying. yeah i spoke to one her name is jennifer she's from nicaragua she came to the u.s. illegally with her three children an eighteen month old a three year old and a six year old was arrested when she crossed the border illegally seeking asylum she was released then by a judge but the good news is she was kept with her to care for some under notes reason so she's now in a shelter whether by the hosted by the catholic charities here she's safe but her husband was taken away from her hasn't seen her husband the big thing is this the difference is in the old days before this zero tolerance policy wanted to place a person like jennifer maybe would have been detained but she would not have been criminally charged now they are being criminally charged so even though a judge said you're free to leave she has to wear an electronic tracking device

around her ankle because essentially she's a criminal still on parole here in the united states has no idea what her future is the good news again she's with her children but unlike so many other families thousands of parents who are separated from their children have no idea if or when they will ever be reunited ok kevin is on to life ross in mcallen texas thank you. let's talk now to robin else who is live for us in capitol hill in washington d.c. so rob there are two major immigration bills up for voting congress how did that go . well not particularly well the first bill was a immigration measure which was. proposed by a conservative faction in the ruling republican party that went down in flames earlier the house did not approve it so there was supposed to have being

a vote later tonight on a compromise measure that was concocted by some more moderate faction in the republican party but that has now been postponed until sometime next week the republican leadership here is aware that failure to pass this bill will be an embarrassment to them to the party and to president trump who has indicated that he would sign this bill so they are adding some sweeteners to it including a system whereby employers would be required to electronically use an electronic system to verify that the people they hire are in the country illegally and can work here legally another aspect that would appeal to people lawmakers that is from a cultural state because it would make it easier for agribusiness isn't farmers to retain migrant workers all of these. within this bill there's also

a provision to allow people who are brought to this country years ago as youngsters by their parents against some pathway toward legal status and it would the bill would lavish some twenty five billion dollars on president trump's border wall which as you recall he promised that mexico would pay for that's not going to happen this time at least we'll see how this works out so the. house leadership is trying to gather support for this bill it's going to be up for a vote next week so the drama continues came up finals last trust in washington d.c. thank you rob. now euro zone finance ministers have agreed on a deal to get greece out of its eight year bailout program athens will now be able to delay back repayments on build on billions of dollars in loans by. twenty fifty now the athens will now be able to

a delay back repayments and billions of dollars by ten years i mean it's also another seventeen point four billion dollars the agreement will make greece's massive debt more manageable e.u. countries and the i.m.f. have lent athens three hundred seventy five billion dollars since twenty ten in return for tax hikes pension cuts and also public sector layoffs but as reports from many businesses the austerity measures have done more harm than good. during the economic depression in greece twenty called she's business has fallen by two thirds many of her clients are bankrupt and jobless even homeless so she often comes to her on credit so they can go to a job interview has moved premises twice looking for a more affluent key in tow and she's come home prices by half but rising taxes have convinced her that the government doesn't want her business to survive. we're not being heard at all now our voice doesn't count we're definitely closing down slowly

slowly if we're not careful we're going to close down the way the government's going that's what their plan is this is what they're showing us what the hey guys you'll be working for us until you can handle it until you get into debt and we just want you to close down we want whatever property you have whatever is yours we want it all started policies were originally meant to turn the greek economy around in two years so far they've lasted eight and as a result of them seven hundred thousand people are no longer considered middle class there are achievements the budget is balanced the government spends no more than it raises in taxes so it's not getting deeper into debt greek labor is more competitive because salaries fell so exports are up the number of tourists has doubled in three years greek agricultural products now bring a quarter of the money that enters the country and shipping remains a traditional strength but business is dependent on domestic consumption

a suffering a million people remain jobless most of the rest saving up to pay taxes economists say in the hands of politicians the medicine of austerity did as much harm as good if i can make a comparison i would consider it someone who has was suffering from cancer and came with eric it became a therapy has been given to him which means that although the goods the bad cells have been dead now but good cells have also died a lot of them at least and which makes the the country as a whole of the organism losing its muscle losing its strength the end of the adjustment program was meant to be a turning point when greece's sacrifices began to pay off but it is difficult to find anyone who now believes the country is on the right path taxes remain high the political climate is polarized and people are traumatized it is as though a war has just ended but there is no sense that greece is. returning to normality and that is a deterrent to investors so is the way in which the refugee crisis has destabilized

european politics and undermined solidarity a looming transatlantic trade war and rising global interest rates could see greece back in receivership jobs are open africans. the wife of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been charged with fraud sara netanyahu is accused of misusing thousands of dollars of state funds on private catering services force that has more from western. it's been coming for months and now it's confirmed sarah netanyahu indicted for fraud the case against misuse of state funds connected to her husband's position as israel's prime minister investigation started three years ago when a government official issued a report on excessive spending at the couple's official residence in west jerusalem she's charged with using nearly one hundred thousand dollars from the official prime minister's residence budget for private ships and food for family events

allegedly conspiring with an official to hide the fact that a resident chef was already being employed and falsifying fifteen invoices for the services of our.